A Devotional Based On The Spiritual Classic He And I

Begin afresh every day as through it were the very first. You are forever at the beginning. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and I know. Is there anything I don’t know? All the same, I like you to tell Me where you have failed and to explain yourself to Me. It brings out your confidence in Me. (July 10, 1941)

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
    his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning;
    great is thy faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23).

“Remember not the former things,
    nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I am doing a new thing;
    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
    and rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:18-19)

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3).

O Lord I thank You that Your mercies are new every morning! That each day we can begin again- You tell us we are forever at the beginning. And it is so easy to just be stuck in the past including our regrets and our mistakes, and yes our sins, and just replay them again and again in our heads. But You tell us not to remember the former things but to see the new thing You are doing in our lives each day as You make a way for us in the wildernesses and deserts of our lives. You know everything about us and yet You want us to tell You all about it in our poverty knowing it is You who will lift us up each day as we sing praises each morning to You in complete confidence!